Stopping-out machine for electrotypers



P. F. HAGGERTY.

. STOPPING OUT MACHINE FOR ELECTROTYPERSY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.10, 1920.

1,348,492 Patented Aug. 3,1920.

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PATRICK r. naoenn'rv. or NEW YORK, 1v. Y. l

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To all 10700727, it may concern.

Be it known that I, PATRICK F. IIAGGERTY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New Yorl ,New York county, andNewYork State, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stopping-Out Machines for Electrotypers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electrotyping apparatus stopping out machines, by which the case is subjected to coatings on certain portions of the intaglio case which is coated with wax or other non-conductive and insoluble substances to prevent an unnecessary electrical deposit on any portion but the type mold, and the object of the machine is to evenly and thoroughly cover the desired parts with the wax deposit rapidly and with practically no handling by the operator.

These and other objects and details of the invention are more fully described in the following specification, set forth in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view.

In the practice of stopping out the case for electrotyping, as heretofore practised, it has heretofore been the practice to apply heated liquefied wax to the case by means of a brush, but this method has been found objectionable because the plate is generally damp and moist and the wax at certain points, fails to adhere to the plate and the brush is liable to apply the wax in various depths of thickness at some points and scrape it away at others.

The present invention is adapted to first heat and dry the case and then apply an even coating of wax to the back of the plate. These operations are performed by the device shown and it consists of a box or frame 5, mounted on legs 6, and having a door 7, at one end to afford access to a gas burner 8, or other heating means. About midway of the top of the frame is located a p an 9, un-

' der which is the sand bath or other heat distributing means 10, both being directly above the burner 8, and the pan being adapted to hold the wax with which the back and edges of the case is to be coated.

Along the upper side edges of the frame, are journaled in the boxes 11, a pair of rollers 12, with a covering 13, of felt or any i 1 Specification of Letters Patent. Patgnt d Au 3 1920 Application filed January 10, 1920 .""Seria1 No. 350,683. if i I flexible material and which dip into the pan 10 and the wax therein. i

At the front end of the frame are also journaled rollers 1 1, with asbestos or other fire proof flexible material covering 15, and

these latter rolluers are tubular with openings at each end for the circulation of air and they inclose a gas pipe 16,'with perforations for jets which are lighted while the machine'is in operation to heat the.

These rollers are journaled in the rollers.

sides of the frame so as to rotate about the gas pipe and feed the plates, which are'laid thereon toward the waxing rollers 12, and their obgect is to heat and dry the case of any moisture and prepare them for the wax coating from the intermediate rollers.

A third set of rollers 17, is journaled at the other end of the frame and are adapted to receive the case from the waxing rollers, cool them and pass them on to the table 18. These rollers may be solid or made up of two parts.

The above described rollers all carry worm wheels 19, at one end of their shafts and these wheels are driven by the worms 20, on a shaft 21, journaled at one side of the case 5, and driven by a pulley 22, which derives its power from any desired quarter.

The rollers thus rotate in unison and feed the case from one end to the other of the "frame during which travel it is freed from moisture and heated to prepare it for the wax from the rollers 12 and will not chill the same when applied. The flexible covering of the rollers 12 gives the adjacent surface of the case a thin and uniform coating to prevent a copper or nickel deposit thereon and to protect the edges and that part of the face where there is no type impression, these edges are dipped separately and successively dipped into the pan 9 be fore it is submitted to the rollers 12, but after being dried upon the Warming rollers 14:.

The gas for the wax pan and the rollers 14, is supplied froma pipe 23, and supplied to these parts by the pipes 24 and 25.

It is obvious that the parts may be otherwise arranged or modified without departing from the essential features above described or from the scope of the appended claims. I

What I claim is I 1. In a stopping out machine for electrotypers, the combination of a frame supporting a pan adapted to contain a liquefied non-conductive substance, rollers journaled on the edge of the pan and'adapted to carry the non-conductive substance, feeding rollers, and meansfor-heating the pan and the feeding rollers.

-2."In a stopping out machine -for e1ee-' trotypers, the combination of a frame, a,

pan for carrying a liquefied non-conductive substance, feed rollers at one .end of the frame, means for heating ,the latter rollers and the pan, and delivery rollers:

3.Ina stopping out machine for electrotypers, the combination of a frame, a pan supported *about the center of the frame,

rollers With-a flexible coveringjournaled on,

the edges of the pan and partly immersed in the pan, drying ro11ers, at one end of :the frame, .delivery rollers at the other end of the frame, means for heatingthe drying. rollers and the pan, and means for rotating the rollers.

ing in the pan, feeding and heating rollers'at-one end 'of the-frame, delivery rollers at the other end of the frame, means for drivi-ng-athe rollers in unison, andmeans.

for heating the pan and the feeding rollers.

5; In a stopping'outinachine for electrotypers, the combination. of t. a v carrying,

frame, a pan for. .Wax, rollersuhavingl fiexi ble. covering. andvrotatmgicin the wax a sand 'loath -beneath.'.the. pan, a burner under.- the sandba'th, hollow feedrollers at one end of the :frame, .a gas pipe WithetsWWithin the rollers, i fire: proof. coverings, for the .latter rollers, delivery rollers atatheother.

endiof the frame, Wormwheelson.theshafts of the rollers, a driving shaJZt,and lwormsv on the latter to rmesh with'the wormswheels.i

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